I have been contacted by a journalist from the online version of The Hindu - India’s national newspaper. Sudhi read my previous blog about the environmental issues facing Kerala and kindly sent me an interesting piece he wrote about how climate change is affecting the growth of fruit and vegetables in Kerala.
Its a similar story [...]

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I took this picture a week ago in Fort Cochin, Kerala.
If you have visited this busy port and spice centre, you cannot fail to have noticed the gigantic trunks of these simply beautiful Rain Trees that line the main square, just across from the famous Chinese fishng nets. They are a reminder of Cochin’s colonial [...]

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There ws not much time to think about gardening or writing my blog whilst I was travelling. through big cities such as Calcutta and Hyderabad.vI did manage to find some gardening activity in our hotel in Chennai where the obsession with a neat and tidy and lawn appeared worse than the UK. I noticed a lady [...]

I have always thought of gardening as a social enterprise. It aims to improve the immediate environment around where we live and usually manages to generate co-operation between individuals and/or an income if run as a business.

As an UnLtd Level 1 Award winner, I feel passionately that this is the way forward out of the [...]

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I visited Kerala in Southern India during 2005 and witnessed for myself the wonderful plants that grow abundantly in “God’s own Country”.This experience was the seed for Global Gardening. Could rising temperatures in the future mean that a few of these tropical and exotic delights might survive in my UK garden?
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I feel slightly pathetic when I moan about the snails and slugs eating my oriental salad leaves. This is hardly a major problem compared to parts of the world where local people depend on regular crop harvests for their day to day survival.

This week the Times reported about the implication of climate change for many [...]